Re: Too Good to be True?

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 10:13

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In article <BTJBFB3w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) writes:
>In what sense is software encumbered by copyright messages and legal 
>obligations "liberated"?

Because the obligations aren't on the software, they're on you.  I, for
example, am "encumbered" by lots of legal obligations, called the "U.S.
Constitution" and "Bill of Rights"; they are actually obligations and
restrictions on what the government can do, to make me a more liberated
person (ignoring the fact that the current administration and judicial
system seem bent on destroying that status).

The software has those "obligations" attached to it so it can be liberated,
so it will not be imprisoned by the likes of you.

You're in my kill file for a while, matthew.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one
sef@kithrup.COM  |  form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the
-----------------+  hell out of them" -- sendmail ruleset 3 comment from DEC.
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.

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